orthoepy

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It is true that the pedantry of scholarship has put its sovereign veto against the practice of writing words as they are spoken, even could the orthoepy ever have been settled by an unquestioned standard.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

The design of Mulcaster to regulate orthography by orthoepy was revived so late as in 1701, in a curious work, under the title of “Practical Phonography,” by John Jones, M.D.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

And while this man’s orthoepy May not be what it should, He knows what books contain, and he “Can quote ’em pretty good.”

From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by Bangs, John Kendrick

Such departures from orthoepy are only to be checked by the power of such example; but this is a power not always present, or not always of sufficient strength. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

There is nothing belonging to the stage which demands such strict discipline as its orthoepy, because there is 78 none in which it can so immediately and powerfully affect the public.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)